Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me's intertitle
Format	Bangsian fantasy Dramedy workplace comedy
Created by	Bryan Fuller
Starring	Ellen Muth Laura Harris Callum Blue Jasmine Guy with Cynthia Stevenson and Mandy Patinkin
Theme music composer	Stewart Copeland
Country of origin	United States
No. Bangsian fantasy is the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife Comedy-drama, also called dramedy and dramatic-comedy, is a style of Television and movies in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance Bryan Fuller (born July 27, 1969) is an American Screenwriter and Television producer. Ellen Anna Muth (born March 6, 1981) is an American actress, known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime Laura Elizabeth Harris (born November 20, 1976) is a Canadian actress Daniel James Callum Blue (born August 19, 1977 in London, England) is an English film and television Actor best known Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American Actress, Singer and Dancer. Cynthia C Stevenson (born August 2 1962) is an American actress Mandy Patinkin ( (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen and a Tenor vocalist Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American Musician, best known as the Drummer for the band The The United States of America —commonly referred to as the of seasons	2
No.  of episodes	29 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	John Masius
Running time	approx. This article contains episode information and plot summaries copied verbatim from the DVD cases of the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me. John Masius is an American writer and producer of television series 47 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Showtime
Original run	June 27, 2003 – October 31, 2004
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Dead Like Me is an American television comedy-drama starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers in Seattle, Washington. Showtime is a subscription television Brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United Events 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Comedy-drama, also called dramedy and dramatic-comedy, is a style of Television and movies in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance Ellen Anna Muth (born March 6, 1981) is an American actress, known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime Mandy Patinkin ( (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen and a Tenor vocalist In English Death is often given the name the " Grim Reaper " and shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large Scythe, and wearing a midnight black gown robe The show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons in 2003 and 2004 before cancellation. Bryan Fuller (born July 27, 1969) is an American Screenwriter and Television producer. Showtime is a subscription television Brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United Fuller left the show after five episodes due to creative differences; he went on to co-create Wonderfalls and create Pushing Daisies. Pushing Daisies is an American Television Dramedy created by Bryan Fuller. Creative direction of Dead Like Me was taken over by executive producers John Masius and Stephen Godchaux. Show runner (alternatively showrunner) is a term used in the United States television industry referring to the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation John Masius is an American writer and producer of television series SCI FI has rerun the series on Tuesday evenings;^[1] the series is also being rerun Sundays at 2:00 AM on Detroit's local WADL. A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a Radio or Television broadcast. WADL is a full-power commercially licensed broadcast television station in the Midwestern United States. ^[2] A direct-to-DVD movie has completed filming and is to be released in 2009;^[3] depending on the movie's success, the series may be picked back up again. ^[4]

Eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass (played by Muth) is the show's protagonist and narrator. The Protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. See also First person First-person narrative is a Narrative mode in which a Story is narrated by one character, who explicitly George dies early in the pilot episode, leaving her mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and rest of her family behind at a point when her relationships with them were on shaky ground. A television pilot is a test episode of an intended Television series. Cynthia C Stevenson (born August 2 1962) is an American actress She becomes one of the "undead", a grim reaper. George soon learns that a reaper's job is to remove the souls of people, preferably right before they die, and escort them until they move on into their afterlife. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical beliefs is the self-awareness, or Consciousness, unique to a particular living AfterLife is a film drama set in Scotland directed by Alison Peebles made in 2003 about an ambitious Scottish journalist forced to choose between The show explores the "lives" and experiences of a small team of such reapers — led by Rube (played by Patinkin) — as well as the post-mortem changes in George and her family as they deal with George's death.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast and characters 2.1 Reapers 2.2 Family 2.3 Happy Time Temporary Services 2.4 Misc. characters 3 Episodes 3.1 DVD releases 3.2 Direct-to-DVD film 4 Grim reapers 5 Gravelings 6 Behind the scenes 6.1 Awards and ratings 6.2 Fuller's departure 7 References 8 See also 9 External links

Synopsis

Georgia Lass is aloof and emotionally distant from her family and shied away from her life. After dropping out of college, she takes a job at Happy Time Temporary Services. On her lunch break of her first day, she is hit and killed by a toilet seat from the de-orbiting of the Mir space station. A toilet seat is the seat and lid of a Toilet bowl. It consists of the seat itself which is contoured for the user to sit on the toilet and the lid which covers Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and ^[5] She is informed shortly after her death that, rather than moving on to the "great beyond", she will become a grim reaper in the "external influence" division^[6], responsible for reaping souls of people who die in accidents (many of which are of Rube Goldberg-style complexity^[7][8]), suicides and homicides. AfterLife is a film drama set in Scotland directed by Alison Peebles made in 2003 about an ambitious Scottish journalist forced to choose between Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg ( July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American Cartoonist who received a 1948 Pulitzer List of countries by homicide rate Homicide ( Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut kill refers to the act of killing another

Through the first season, George has trouble adjusting to her circumstances: collecting souls, while holding a day job at Happy Time. By the second season, she has mostly adjusted to her new role, though still has unresolved issues with her life and her afterlife.

George's family is struggling to deal with her death. Her mother, Joy, is depressed, and visibly repressing it, while Clancy, her father, is cheating on Joy. See also Adultery Infidelity can be defined as any violation of the mutually agreed-upon rules or boundaries of a relationship and is a breach of faith in an inter-personal George's sister, Reggie, acts out — stealing toilet seats from neighbors and school, and hanging them on a tree — before being sent to therapy by Joy. Psychotherapy is an Interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in problems of living She clings to the belief that George visits her, but is starting to lie to cover this up. At the start of the second season, the family began to break apart as divorce proceedings began.

Nearly all of the main characters have some form of depression, however, they cope with it in different ways: Mason resorts to alcohol and drugs, Daisy puts on a veneer of perkiness, and Roxy is physically and verbally aggressive. Rube and George are more open about their sadness.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of Dead Like Me characters

Reapers

• Georgia "George" Lass (Ellen Muth): The show's protagonist, 18 years-old, and a college dropout. Ellen Anna Muth (born March 6, 1981) is an American actress, known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime The Protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. In addition to being a grim reaper she has a day job at Happy Time Temporary Services, under the assumed name "Millie Hagen". She was killed when a toilet seat from the Mir space station fell on her. Mir (Мир which can mean both Peace and World, and was the name given to peasant communes in pre-revolutionary Russia was a Soviet (and

• Rube Sofer (Mandy Patinkin): The head of the group of reapers. Mandy Patinkin ( (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen and a Tenor vocalist He is responsible for passing out reaping assignments, nearly always on yellow post-it notes. The Post-it note, invented by 3M 's Art Fry using an adhesive developed by a colleague Spencer Silver, is a piece of Stationery with a re-adherable He becomes a father figure for George (whom he calls "Peanut") in her grim-reaping afterlife, and had a daughter named Rose ("Rosie"). A Father Figure is usually considered to be an older man often one in a position of power or influence who arouses Emotions usually felt for a person's Father The manner of his death is never revealed.

• Mason (Callum Blue): A drug/alcohol addict and thief, but a likable person. Daniel James Callum Blue (born August 19, 1977 in London, England) is an English film and television Actor best known He acts as an "older brother" figure to George, and is attracted to Daisy. He is originally from London, UK, and he died in 1966 by drilling a hole in his head to achieve the permanent high. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Trepanation (also known as trepanning, trephination, trephining or burr hole) is surgery in which a hole is Drilled or scraped into

• Roxy Harvey (Jasmine Guy): A strong-willed, sassy, independent character. Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962 in Boston Massachusetts) is an American Actress, Singer and Dancer. Her day job is initially as a meter maid, but she later becomes a cop. A parking enforcement officer or parking attendant is a member of a Traffic control department or agency who issues tickets for Parking violations While physically the second oldest reaper in the group, Roxy is the second newest to the afterlife. She was strangled to death with leg warmers – which she had invented – in 1982 by a jealous roommate. Leg warmers are coverings for the lower legs similar to socks but thicker and generally footless

• Daisy Adair (Laura Harris): A spoiled actress who often tells stories about her (alleged) sexual escapades with classic film stars. Laura Elizabeth Harris (born November 20, 1976) is a Canadian actress She died on December 13, 1938 of asphyxiation/smoke inhalation in Marietta, Georgia, (supposedly on the set of Gone with the Wind). Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Marietta is a City located in central Cobb County Georgia, and is its County seat. Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American dramatic - romantic - War film adapted from Margaret Mitchell 's 1936 Her last thought before she died was, "Why has nobody ever loved me?"

• Betty Rohmer (Rebecca Gayheart): A confident, well-adjusted reaper. Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971) is an American Television and Film Actress. She keeps Polaroids of each of the souls she reaped in department store shopping bags, organized by personality type. Types of Polaroid instant cameras See also List of Polaroid instant cameras Polaroid cameras can be classified by the type of film they use George begins to bond with her early in the first season, but she "hitches a ride" with one of the souls George had reaped and is never seen again. She died in 1926 while cliff-diving with her fiancé. Diving off a deck into the Great South Bay of Long Islandjpg|thumb|A man dives into the Great South Bay of Long Island. Rube was present at her death as shown in the season 1 episode "Reaping Havoc".

Family

• Reggie Lass (Britt McKillip): George's younger sister. Britt McKillip (born January 18, 1991 in British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Reggie Lass Though George ignored her while she was alive, Reggie is very much affected by the death of her sister. She believes that George's ghost still roams about the city and visits their home from time to time (technically, she is right). Due to her eccentric, borderline-pathological way of grieving her sister's death, Reggie is placed in therapy.
• Joy Lass (Cynthia Stevenson): George's mother. This is a list of the characters from the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me. Cynthia C Stevenson (born August 2 1962) is an American actress A Virgo who has a pathological fear of balloons and who hates the word moist because "it sounds pornographic". She likes to have order, rules, and control in her life. Other characters in the show, such as her own mother, mention that her obsession with control is how she copes with denial of her own out-of-control life: her daughter George's death; her younger daughter's rather unconventional style of grieving George's death; and her divorce from Clancy Lass.
• Clancy Lass (Greg Kean): George's father. This is a list of the characters from the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me. Gregory Kean Williams (born September 27, 1962) is a Canadian television actor He is an English Professor at the University of Washington. His relationship with Joy begins to seriously deteriorate after the death of George. He has an affair with one of his Shakespeare class students, which becomes the final death knell to his marriage.

Happy Time Temporary Services

• Delores Herbig (Christine Willes): George's boss. This is a list of the characters from the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me. Christine Willes is a Canadian Television and Film actress who is best known for her role as Delores Herbig on the Delores dislikes George, but becomes friends with "Millie", for whom she becomes something of a maternal figure, offering advice and support, and on one occasion bailing Millie out of jail. Delores is optimistic, dynamic, and motivated; she has an active Internet presence through various social and dating sites, and runs a website (her home life on webcam) called 'Getting Things Done With Delores'.
• Crystal Smith (Crystal Dahl): Happy Time's mysterious receptionist whose Happy Time record indicates that she speaks several languages and previously served as a special forces operative in Southeast Asia^[9]. This is a list of the characters from the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me. Crystal Dahl is a Canadian actress perhaps best known for her role as Crystal Smith in the drama-comedy television series Dead Like Me. Crystal once helped the reapers organize into computer files a collection of souls' last thoughts^[10]. She steals office supplies, specifically Post-it notes. The Post-it note, invented by 3M 's Art Fry using an adhesive developed by a colleague Spencer Silver, is a piece of Stationery with a re-adherable She also dressed as a reaper for Halloween. There is a strong suggestion that Crystal is either a reaper herself or is otherwise aware of their activities.

Misc. characters

• Kiffany (Patricia Idlette): The Reaper's usual waitress at "Der Waffel House. This is a list of the characters from the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me. Patricia Idlette is an Actress known for her role as Kiffany a waitress in Showtime 's Dead Like Me. " She is a quiet observer of the Reaper group. It is hinted that she knows more about them than she should. She is said to be psychic.

Episodes

Main article: List of Dead Like Me episodes

Each episode lasts approximately 45 minutes and usually follows the events of a single day. This article contains episode information and plot summaries copied verbatim from the DVD cases of the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me.

DVD releases

Season	Release dates	Includes
Season 1	Region 1: June 15, 2004 Region 2: June 20, 2005 Region 4: July 12, 2005[11]	All 14 episodes of the first season. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Commentary by members of the cast. Thirty minutes of deleted scenes. Two behind-the-scenes featurettes. Photo gallery. [12]
Season 2	Region 1: June 19, 2005 Region 2: April 16, 2007 Region 4: July 18, 2007[13]	All 15 episodes of the second season. Events 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Deleted scenes. Behind-the-scenes featurettes. Photo gallery. [14]

Direct-to-DVD film

Main article: Dead Like Me (film)

On April 18, 2007, MGM announced that they are developing several direct-to-DVD movies and sequels. Dead Like Me is a direct-to-DVD movie developed by MGM. It is based on the Dead Like Me television series (2003–2004 Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Included among them is a brand new film based on Dead Like Me. ^[15] The movie is to be set two years after the last series episode. ^[16] The movie's release date was originally set for July 22, 2008, but was pushed back to 2009. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common ^[17]

Grim reapers

In the world of Dead Like Me, Grim reapers do not wear black cloaks or carry scythes (cloaks and scythes are only featured during the opening credits), but their role remains traditional: they remove the souls of the living shortly before death and escort them into their afterlife. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical beliefs is the self-awareness, or Consciousness, unique to a particular living Many religious belief systems have a particular spirit, Angel, or Deity whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the Afterlife

Death has a list of who is scheduled to die and when. Each Reaper is given a non-transferable assignment to collect particular souls. ^[18] Sometimes finding that assignment is difficult because the Reapers only receive the first (and sometimes middle) initial and last name of the person about to die, the place, and time of death. That person must be reaped at the time of their intended death, or the soul will remain in the dead body until reaped.

If the events surrounding a person's death are interfered with by a reaper and they do not die at their appointed time, the soul will "wither and die and rot inside" them. ^[18] Deaths can be stopped without risk to the soul by interfering well in advance, thus reapers would not be interfering with the events that lead to the death, however such actions might have unintended consequences, such as more people dying before their time. Unintended consequences are outcomes that are not (or not limited to what the actor intended in a particular situation

Reapers have a physical body and may interact with the living and the dead. The only special abilities Reapers have besides collecting souls are the powers to remain ageless and to heal quickly. ^[19][20] When seen by the living, a reaper's physical appearance is different from the one they had when alive (except on Halloween when the living see them as they were in life^[21]), though fellow reapers see their original appearances. ^[22] Laura Boddington portrays lead character George's 'undead' appearance in six episodes. Laura Boddington (born 1980 is an English film and television actress who has been working in Canada the last 10 years ^[23]

The passage into the afterlife is shown as a brightly lit scene towards which the newly-deceased is drawn. The portal is unique to each soul: for a child, it may be a wonderful carnival, but for a yoga master, it may be a Deva beckoning from within a Divine Lotus. A deva (देव Sanskrit and Pāli) in Buddhism is one of many different types of non-human beings who share the characteristics of being more powerful Souls cannot be forced to enter the portals, so part of the Reapers' job is to convince such souls to do so.

Gravelings

In the show, Reapers do not actually kill people. Instead, deaths are arranged by 'gravelings'. ^[24]

Gravelings are mischievous gremlin-like creatures that cause the accidents and mishaps that kill people. A gremlin is a folkloric creature commonly depicted as mischievous and mechanically oriented with a specific interest in Aircraft. The living generally cannot see them, though in one episode, a schizophrenic seems to do so. Schizophrenia ( from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν "to split" and phrēn Reapers can see and interact with them to some extent: Daisy once shushed a graveling; Rube yelled "Get outta here!" when he saw gravelings playing on a cemetery statue; George chased gravelings around her flat. Gravelings do not communicate verbally with Reapers, and talk to each other in a hushed and unintelligible babble.

In one episode it is noted that if a Reaper does not take a soul which they are meant to, a "hunting season" will be declared on them until that soul is taken and order is restored. Throughout the series, some of the Reapers, including George, Roxy, Mason, and Daisy have been plagued by the wrath of Gravelings.

A graveling rose from the body of Ray in "Forget Me Not" (Season 2, Episode 12) following his death at the hands of a reaper,^[25] implying that gravelings result from either evil or rotted souls, or from the un-reaped souls of people who die before their destined time. This is a list of the characters from the Showtime Comedy-drama series Dead Like Me.

The graveling that arose from Ray's body was later "killed" by George. Since reapers have the ability to remove souls, and gravelings are simply semi-physical incarnations of rotted/lost/dead souls, when George touched it, it turned to dust. There are no living souls present in graveling thus touching it removed it from existence. This suggests that either Reapers are more powerful than gravelings, that George has a special relationship with them or at the very least, that she has something 'more' to her than explained in the series. The episode entitled "The Shallow End" (Season 2, Episode 4) shows gravelings appearing to hesitate from claiming a young Georgia's life.

Behind the scenes

Awards and ratings

The series was nominated for a total of eight awards including two Emmys for "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series" and "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series" and three Saturn Awards. The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in Science fiction, Fantasy ^[26] The show's complete ratings were not released, though executives had claimed to at least one reporter that Dead Like Me had ratings three times Showtime's primetime average. ^[27] This contradicts the network's statement that the ratings were not high enough for a third season. ^[28] When questioned by critics about the ratings in January 2005, Showtime Chairman and CEO Matthew Blank responded "I really don't think we know. . . . "^[29]

Fuller's departure

Bryan Fuller left early in the first season due to conflicts with MGM Television, including disagreement over major script and storyline cuts considered important to the main theme. Bryan Fuller (born July 27, 1969) is an American Screenwriter and Television producer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television (commonly known as MGM Television and later MGM/UA Television among other names is an American television production/distribution He stated that the "lack of professionalism. . . made it really difficult. . . It was like being at war. . . They were constantly trying to strong arm me. It was the worst experience of my life. " According to Fuller, Showtime canceled the show because of "a loss of quality and a sense the problems would continue. "^[30]

References

See also

• Dead Like Me (film)

External links

• Dead Like Me at MGM
• Dead Like Me Movie Latest News about the Dead Like Me Movie
• Dead Like Me at Scifi Channel
• Dead Like Me at Showtime
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